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Features

The software offers basic frame and finite element analysis with
members, plates, spring supports, static 1st order and P-Delta analysis,
dynamic mode shape and response and time-history are also available.
Structural models may be pure-trusses, mixed truss-frames in 2D or 3D.
Models may be sketched graphically or generated through a variety of
mechanisms.

Multiple models may be created side-by-side with different configurations to demonstrate different behaviors. For example, you could have a simply supported beam and a fixed-end beam in the same project to show how the moment diagrams and deflections differ.

Loading

A wide variety of static loading is available including distributed
or concentrated forces and moments, settlements, and thermal loading. Dynamic loads and mass may also be specified. Load combinations
are flexible and support major building code requirements.

Analysis & Results

Analysis results include displacements, reactions, member internal
forces and end reactions, plate forces and stresses. Results are
available graphically on-frame, or in member or plate graphs, as well as
in tabled reports that are filterable and flexible to create.
Project files may be saved and sent between students and teachers with
ease. (Files saved without analysis results are fairly small.)

Design Checks

To introduce students to code-checking features of the commercial
product, the educational version has AISC 2005 steel design "unity"
checks for beams, columns, braces, etc. These are checks-only, no automatic member resizing or searching, with fast preliminary calculations primarily for demonstration purposes.

License & Permission

Schools and instructors may install VisualAnalysis on any school owned machines, including lab machines at school, faculty office machines, research areas. Instructors may install this on personal machines used for teaching or research. Students may use the software on-campus or on their own personal machines.